electroempire.com/index.php?at…d1d582c8235be1495120ca2f0 Alan R. Pearlman, founder of the highly influential and innovative synthesizer company ARP Instruments, has died at age 93. His daughter Dina Pearlman, took to social media last Sunday to make the announcement, saying: "My father passed away today after a long illness. At 93, too weak to speak he still managed to play the piano this morning, later passing away peacefully in the afternoon. He was a great man and contributed much to the worl…

electroempire.com/index.php?at…d1d582c8235be1495120ca2f0 Released back in October of 2017, VCV Rack, which is an open-source virtual modular system, was warmly welcomed by the synthesizer enthusiast community and for a number of reasons. Just in time to weave itself into the momentum being gained by the rising popularity of modular synthesizers, VCV Rack offered users a completely free way to get into modular systems, and with plenty to offer from the start. But this was by no means just a tool …

electroempire.com/index.php?at…d1d582c8235be1495120ca2f0Tony "Pretty Tony" Butler is a very mysterious producer. Working behind the scenes on productions that many people would perhaps be surprised that he was even involved in, he has helped lay the groundwork for the path that our music has taken over the years. From groups like Freestyle to Debbie Deb and her hit single "When I Hear Music", he has been the key component in some of Electro's hottest releases of the past. Starting out as a local…

Hello everyone!!! We are Electric Kingdom, an online magazine dedicated to the sounds of Electro music. Our team consists of people with a long history in the scene, like Chris Nexus 6 from New Flesh Records and Fundamental Bass Intelligence, Santino Fernandez (Morphogenetic, Ascension Electronique), Giulia Scrocchi of Soundwall Magazine and the iconic Italian Orbiter parties, and of course, Lukas Barfield of Global Funk Radio and his long-running Freebass Radio show. You can check out our posts…

electroempire.com/index.php?at…d1d582c8235be1495120ca2f0 Carl Finlow is a man that hardly needs an introduction. With a vast career that spans nearly 3 decades, with various projects such as Black Labs (with Daz Quayle and Kevin Walsh), Voice Stealer, IL.EK.TRO, Silicon Scally, and many others, the man is one of the single most iconic figures in the Electro scene...and he just keeps going! Hot on the heels of his new vinyl release "Boolean" on Craigie Knowes label, as well as recent remixes for …

electroempire.com/index.php?at…d1d582c8235be1495120ca2f0 Perttu Häkkinen, the legendary Finnish musician perhaps best known in the Electro scene for his works as Imatran Voima with Jaakko Kestilä, is also an artist with a fairly extensive solo music career dating back to the year 2000. Having appeared on labels such as Flogsta Danshall, Harmönia, and Losonofono Records as Randy Barracuda, with classics such as the singles "Rick James Is Dead", or "The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions", Häkkin…